Mapping NYC Taxi Data

Earlier this week the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission officially released yellow and green taxi trip record data for all of 2014 and up to June of 2015. This includes millions of records that include pick-up and drop-off dates and times, pick-up and drop-off locations, trip distances, itemized fares, rate types, payment types, and driver-reported passenger counts. The data, which was previously only available through submission of a formal Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request, is available in CSV format as well as from Google's BigQuery tools [1]...